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truth_n	believe_v	faith_n	reason_n	7,423	5	5.8303	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89005	Ochlo-machia. Or The peoples war, examined according to the principles of Scripture & reason, in two of the most plausible pretences of it. In answer to a letter sent by a person of quality, who desired satisfaction. By Jasper Mayne, D.D. one of the students of Ch. Ch. Oxon.	Mayne, Jasper, 1604-1672.	1647 (1647)	Wing M1472; Thomason E398_19; ESTC R201695	27,844	40

the same tune yet there be other parts which though they doe not contradict it are yet so unillustrable from the principles of Reason that they cannot in a natur all way of Argumentation force assent And you know Sir 't would be unreasonable to make Warre upon mens persons for the reception of a Doctrine which cannot convince their Minds I must needs confesse to you should Christ now live in our daies and Preach much harder Doctrines then those in the Gospell and should confirme every Dectrine with a Miracle as he did then 't would be an inexcusable peece of Infidelity in all those who should soe his Miracles not presently to consent and yeeld beliefe to his Sermons But somethings in his Doctrine appearing new and strange to the World and depending for the probability of their Truth upon the Authority of his Miracles And those Miracles being Matters of Fact wrought so many Ages since and therefore not possibly able to represent themselves to our times upon greater Authority and proofe then the Faith and generall Report of Tradition and story If any shall think they have reason not to believe such a report they may also thinke they have no reason to believe such Miracles and by consequence the Doctrine said to be confirmed by them In short Sir the Gospell at that very time when the Preaching of it was accompanied with Mivacles obtained not alwaies that successe which the saving Doctrine of it deserved The Jewes saies S. Paul 1. Cor. 1.22 Require a signe that is they would believe it no farther then they saw Miracle for it And the Greekes That is the learned Gentiles seek after wisdome that is They would believe no more of it then could be proved to them by Demonstration Nay notwithstanding all those great Miracles which were wrought by Christ and his Apostles after him S. Paul tels us at the 23. verse of that Chapter that the vilenesse of Christs death did so diminish the Anthority of his Doctrine though confirmed by Miracles that the Preaching of Him crucified was a stumbling block to the Jewes and Foolishnesse to the Greekes Next Sir As Christ hath no where commanded that men should be compelled to receive the Gospell by any Terrors or Inflictions of Temporall punishments so I finde that all such endeavours are very unsutable to his practise You know what his answer was to his two zealous Disciples who would have called for * Luke 9.54 fire from heaven to consume those Samaritans who would not receive him * v. 55 56. ye know not saith he of what spirit ye are of The sonne of man is not come to destroy mens lives but to save them Which Answer of his was like the Commission which he gave to his Apostles when he sent them forth to Preach the Gospell to severall Citties which extended no farther then this * Luke 9.5 If they will not receive you shake off the dust of your feet against them for a Testimony that you have been there Agreeable to this practise of Christ is that Canon which past in the Councell of * C. de Iudiciis dist 45. Toledo which saies pracipit sancta Synodus Nemini deinceps ad credendum vim inferre 'T is ordered by this holy Syned that no man be henceforth compelled to believe the Gospell A Canon which I wish the men of the Countrey where 't was made had worne in their Ensignes when they made Warre upon the Indians And agreeable to this Canon is the saying of Tertullian Lex nova non se 〈◊〉 ultore gladio The new Law allowes not it's Apostles to revenge the contempt of it by the Sword And agreeable to this saying of Tertullian is that passage in * In Arcanâ Historiâ Procopius where one tells Justinian the Emperour that in striving to force the Samaritans to be Christians by the Sword he made himselfe successor to the two over zealous Apostles who because they would not receive their Master would have destroy'd them by fire This then being so to deale freely Sir both with you and your Friend as often as I read the writings of some of our hot Reformers who think all others Infidells who are not of their Opinions And whose usuall language 't is towards all those who differ from them in Poynts though in themselves indifferent and no way necessary to Salvation * Luke 14.28 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 make Covenants raise Armies strip them of their Estates and compell them to come in me thinks a peece of the Alcoran is before mee and the Preachers of such unchristian Doctrines though they walke our English streets in the shape of Assembly Protestant Divines seem to me to be a Constantinople Colledge of Mahomets Priests To speak yet more plainly to you Sir I am so farre from thinking it a peece of Christian Doctrine to Preach that 't is lawfull if it may not be done by perswasion to take from men the Liberty even of their erring Conscience that the new Army which shall be raised which I hope never to see for the prosecution and advancement of such an End however they may be Scots or English-men by their Birth will seem to me an Army of Mussell-men and to come into the field with Scymitars by their sides and Tulipants and Turbants on their Heads How farre Defensive Armes may be taken up for Religion cannot well be resolved without a Distinction I conceive Sir that if such a warre fall out between Two Independent Nations That which makes the Assaylants to be in the wrong will necessarily make the Defendants to be in the Right which is as I have proved to you a want of rightfull power to plant Religion by the Sword For in all such Resistances not only They who fight to preserve a true but They who fight because they would not be compelled to part with a false Religion which they beleeve to be a true are innocent alike The Reason is which I have intimated to you before because All Religion being built up on Faith and Faith being only Opinion built upon Autority and Opinion built upon Autority having so much of the Liberty of mens wills in it that they may chuse how farre they will or will not beleeve that Autority No man hath Right to take the Liberty of another mans will from him or to prescribe to him what he shall or shall not beleeve though in all outward things that other have sold his Liberty to him and made his Will his Subject where both parties therefore are Independent and One no way Subiect to the Other Religion it selfe though for the propagation of it selfe cannot warrant the One to invade the Others Freedome But 't is permitted to the Invaded by both the Lawes of God that of Nature and Scripture too unlesse they be guilty of some preceedent Injury which is to be repayred by Satisfaction not seconded by Resistance to repell Force with Force And if the Army now in